As the sound of country music has shifted, the emotive whir of its classic instrument has often been sidelined. The complicated antique has found new life in surprising forms. By Grayson Haver Currin ...

As the Cruel World festival descends on Los Angeles next month, a slew of vintage T-shirts featuring retro acts such as Duran Duran and the Cure will, too. But perhaps the coolest audience flex might ...

Bucky Baxter, a pedal-steel guitarist who played extensively with Bob Dylan in the '90s, has died. He was 65. The musician's career stretched back more than three decades and included session work and ...

Pedal steel guitar innovator Buddy Emmons has died at the age of 78. Nicknamed “The Big E” for his height, Mr. Emmons, a member of the Steel Guitar Hall of Fame, played with some of country music’s ...

Nothing cries as convincingly as a pedal steel guitar. While that sound breaths emotion into Hawaiian, country, and even rock n’ roll music on occasion, it is more often associated with Nashville than ...

Back in February 2022, not many people were thinking about Christmas. Fortunately, J.R. Bohannan had yuletide on the mind. It was then that the Brooklyn guitarist and pedal steel player deployed the ...

ORANGE, New Jersey -- In this one-room sanctuary on a suburban New Jersey street, a rock-and-roll icon was born. It was in the House of God church in the '80s and '90s a young Robert Randolph learned ...

Robby Turner, the pedal steel guitarist whose soulful mastery of the instrument is embedded in stardom-redefining songs for Waylon Jennings, Sturgill Simpson and Chris Stapleton, has died. He was 63.

Sadly, Australia’s Undercover Music News reports this morning that Ben Keith, legendary pedal steel guitarist and longtime friend and producer to Neil Young, has died. Keith was born in Fort Riley, ...